Improvement in corsets



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M. com. CORSET.

Patentd Feb. 29,1876.

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ILPETERS. PHOTO-LVHDGRAPHER, WASWNGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIGE.

MORITZ (JOHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lNCQRSE TS.

Specification forming part-of Letters Patent No. 1 74,199, dated February 29, 1876'; application tiled February 9, 1876.

'to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the manufacture of corsets it has been customary, in the production ofthe finer qualities' of goods, to give'totheupper edgeof the corset a finishedand beautiful appearance, by either stitching itover (generally first cutting the'edgeinseallops) or by sewingon toit an ornamented edging, and sometimes to still further beautify the corset in appearance, by the embroidery of a pattern upon its surface inside of or beneath the stitched upper edge or'bordering. But it has been the practice, in the manufacture'ofcorsets, toaccomplish the edging or stitching of the upper edge, and the embroidery of various ornamental designs in thes-urface beneath the upper ornamental edge of the corset, through the medium of hand-labor.

To manufacture a fine class of goods, such as just alluded to, in this country (where handlabor is so much more costly than in Europe) and sell in the market in competitionwith the article of foreign manufacture, is quite impossible, while at the same time it is necessary, in order to render our American manufacture equally as acceptable to the consumer as the imported goods, that the former be finished quite as handsomely as, and with the same degree of durability possesssed by the imported corsets.

To accomplish the great desideratum of providing the public with a corset embodying all the utility and durability, and possessing all the beauty of finish and appearance of corsets stitched round the upper edge or ornamented with an edging and beautified by hand embroidery, (such as are imported,) and at the same or less cost than the foreign manufacture, is the object of my invention; which to this end consists in a corset having its upper edge raised in imitation of stitching, or otherwise beautified, either with or without the addition of a pattern or design produced inside of or below the ornamental edge in the operation of the weaving of the corset, and without the subsequent application of any stock separate from that out of which the corset is'woven, and without the expenditure of" 'fectly understand it, 1 will proceed to more fully describe the new productor manufacture which constitutes thesubject of my invention,

referringby letters to the accompanying drawin gs, ihrming part of this specification.

At Figure l is shown in elevation a corset, having its edge ornamented according to my invention; Fig. 2 is shown a modification of my invention, in which the corset is not only woven with an ornamented edge, but is also ornamented in imitation of embroidery below the edge, at d d. Fig. 3shows another pattern'or style of ornamentation effected according to my invention, during the operation of weaving the corset-web. Fig. 4' represents the appearance ofthe web or corset before the superfluous portion of the web is trimmed or cut off-5 and Figs. 5 and 6show respectivel y a corset made with a hand-stitched edge and embroidery, and one with a separate edging sewed on to the upper edge of the web.

At Figs. 2, 3, 4., 5, and 6, I have shown only a portion of the upper part of a corset, on a larger scale than that on which Fig. l is drawn, in order to more clearly illustrate the details of construction. At Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the corset A is woven, as usual, in a corset loom, and of the proper shape or contour, but

composed, and is effected in the loom during the operation of weaving the web.

'At Fig. 2 both the edging o and the imitation, embroidery at d are in like manner pro- (1 need during the operation of weaving the web.

In the production of the corsets the web, of course, comes from the loom, as usual, with a superfluity of stock, which has to be trimmed off, in such manner as to leave the corsets edge at top and bottom of the right shape; and in -the weaving of the web according to my invention, with a border or line of imitation edging or edge-stitching, the latter must be so efi'ected, as shown at Fig. 4, that when the portion 0 of the web shall have been removed or trimmed off close up to the pattern or bordering f, the latter will form the upper edge and finish of the corset.

The edging or edge-pattern produced during the weaving of the web, and out of the stock composing it, is efl'ected through the instrumentality ofthe Jacquard, with cards designed and cut for the purpose, and the trimming of the web 0E to the outline of the woven border or edging may be very precisely and economically effected by machinery adapted to the purpose; but as this trimming may be done in the usual manner, and as the harnessing of a loom and designing of the proper cards for its Jacquard to produce various patterns form no part of the invention set forth in this application, I do not deem it necessary to describe herein any new machinery which I may have devised for a more rapid or economical trimming of the web, nor explain herein any'improved cards or adjustment of the harness for facilitating the weaving of my new kind 'of corsets. Such matters may more properly form the subject of other applications for patents by me. o

It will be understood that the gist of my invention rests in the idea of a corset having the raised stitched-like or other ornamental edging or finish to the upper edge (ofany desired pattern or design) produced by the loom during the operation or process of weaving the web, and out of the stock of which it is Woven,

made entirely by machinery, and thereforeproduced at a much less cost than that at which it would be possible to produce in this country the article finished by hand-labor.

It will be understood that I do not wish to limit myself in the working of my invention to any particular design or pattern of edgefinish, nor to the use or omission of auxiliary patterns produced below the edging; and that my invention is independent of any precise machinery for either the weaving or trimming of the web.

It will be seen that, in a corset having the edging produced from the material from which the web is woven in the process of making the web, such edging or edge-ornamentation will.

be very durable and strong, as Well as economic of production.

Having so described my invention that a person skilled in the art of making corsets by machinery can readily make it, what I claim as a new article of manufacture, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p A corset having a thickened and ornamented edge, or an edging in imitation of hand-stitchin g, formed out of the same stock of which the corset-web is woven, and produced by the loom during the process of weaving the corset-web, as set forth. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of February, 1876. a

MORITZ GOHN. [L.

. Witnesses:

J. N. MoINTIRE, J AGOB FELBEL. 

